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Mozilla introduces advanced version of Firefox 3

Thu, 20/12/2007 - 14:34 by Samia Sehgal

Mozilla has unveiled a newer, more stable version of Firefox 3.0 – the Beta 2. The company claims the latest version of the popular web browser is far more convenient and has numerous other improvements over its predecessor.

NASA Working On Technical Difficulties

Wed, 19/12/2007 - 15:10 by Abhinav Narula

Tuesday turned out to be a hectic day for NASA just as it had been anticipated. It was busy seeking solutions to its technical problems both in space as well as on the ground with astronauts inspecting rotary joints abroad the International Space Station and engineers examining the fuel tank sensors on the Atlantis.

Leopard sales best ever for Apple

Tue, 18/12/2007 - 16:34 by Abhishek Garg

Apple's latest offering in the arena of operating systems, Leopard has broken all previous sales records.

Study: Tibetan ice fields may be melting

Wed, 12/12/2007 - 21:22 by MT Bureau

Columbus, Ohio -- U.S. scientists said cores drilled from a Himalayan ice field lack a radioactive marker found in virtually every other ice core retrieved worldwide.

Ohio State University researchers said the missing radioactivity -- originating as fallout from 1950s and 1960s nuclear tests -- might be an ominous sign for the Indian subcontinent.

The radioactivity is used by researchers as a benchmark against which they can gauge how much new ice has accumulated on a glacier or ice field.

The absence of that marker from ice cores drilled from a large glacier 19,849 feet high on the Tibetan Plateau means the ice field has been shrinking at least since the atomic bomb tests conducted half a century ago.

Ohio State University Professor Lonnie Thompson said the finding might foreshadow a future when the stockpiles of freshwater will vanish, affecting more than 500 million people on the Indian subcontinent.

Honda Takes Hydrogen Out for a Spin

Wed, 28/11/2007 - 18:14 by David Lee Smith

With the world just starting to use more oil than it likely can produce over time, it's a decided positive to have an automobile company contemplating production of a hydrogen car, rather than cranking out giant eight-cylinder SUVs as rapidly as suburban families can drive them off dealers' lots. On that basis, I applaud Honda (NYSE: HMC), which will introduce a state-of-the-art hydrogen fuel-cell car in California next year.

MS Vista lawsuit seeks class-action status

Tue, 27/11/2007 - 14:15 by MT Staff

Seattle -- Plaintiffs suing Microsoft Corp. for the way its U.S. Windows Vista operating system was depicted to consumers have requested class-action status for the case.

The plaintiffs told U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" slogan was wrongly used to market machines unable to run the new operating system's most highly touted features.

Microsoft filed papers opposing class-action status and called its "Windows Vista Capable" marketing responsible and appropriate, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.

The slogan was used on PCs that could run only Windows Vista Home Basic, not more advanced versions of the operating system.

The lawsuit asserts Home Basic is not a "real" Windows Vista version because it lacked "signature" elements such as the "Aero Glass" on-screen appearance and remote-controlled Windows Media Center interface.

All Smile(y)s for 25 years

Thu, 20/09/2007 - 06:14 by Samia Sehgal

The internet emoticons have turned 25. The little smiling face that lets you portray you expressions better than any number of words has been around for twenty five years? Well, I don’t know. I’ve been using it since I started using the computer so for me, it has existed forever.

Cyber Crooks Crack Monster Codes

Wed, 22/08/2007 - 14:22 by Samia Sehgal

Monster.com, the world’s largest online recruiter has been victimized by cyber crooks who hacked the site, pinching records of several hundred thousand job seekers. Secretly, the hackers obtained recruiters’ logon passwords to access resumes on the job search Web site.

25 years of the Compact Disc

Sat, 18/08/2007 - 17:51 by Samia Sehgal

Only 25 years ago, there was a world that did not know what a Compact Disc was. People survived on vinyl records and tapes till the CD came and revolutionized entertainment, pushing out the regular means and making a place for itself that stands inimitable.

Sun introduces UltraSparc T2

Tue, 07/08/2007 - 16:20 by Samia Sehgal

Sun Microsystems Inc. will today unveil its eight-core, UltraSparc T2 processor, capable of executing 64-threads all together, giving it an edge over the previous generation chips that mostly handle one to four threads at a time.

Yahoo! for Sale?

Tue, 10/07/2007 - 21:45 by Lawrence Rothman

After a meteoric rise, Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) seems to have fallen back to earth. Following the dot-com bust, the share price ran up from less than $10 in 2002 to more than $40 at the start of 2006. However, it is currently trading at about $27 a share, trailing Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) in the hearts and minds of Web users and investors.

You Can't Kill CNET

Tue, 10/07/2007 - 21:42 by Rick Aristotle ...

Is it too late for CNET Networks (Nasdaq: CNET) to be nimble again? This month's issue of Wired offers a pretty grim prognosis from TechCrunch mastermind Michael Arrington.